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The double Olympic gold medals and three world championship titles have already made Caster Semenya a legend in world athletics, but the South African middle distance runner rates the yellow metal won at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune higher in her ...Business Standard, 2 weeks ago

backed up his worldwide dominance in sprint racing by taking the gold medal in the 60-meter dash timed at 6.37 seconds in the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships. Seven months after the retirement of the world's greatest all-time sprinter, Usain ...

Mariya Lasitskene and Danil Lysenko could not represent their banned home nation of Russia at the world indoor championships on Thursday but, competing as neutral athletes, the spring-heeled pair still leapt to high jump gold. Lasitskene, one of the worlds ...

Kenyas 800 metres Olympic champion and world record holder David Rudisha and two-time Olympic 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop will not seek selection for this years Commonwealth Games, team officials said. A total of 170 athletes have been invited for the one-day ...

It is the first time every athlete has been disqualified from a heat at a major championships. IMAGE: Bralon Taplin of Grenada wins the men's 400m heat at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. Photograph: Tony Marshall/Getty Images Every runner, including the world's fastest man this year, was disqualified in a bizarre 400 metres heat that made athletics history on the second day of the world indoor championships on Friday.Bralon Taplin was among the casualties after appearing to qualify for ...

Kenya's 25-year-old sprinter, who was also the first athlete from the country to win a sprint gold in 2015 Beijing world championships, announced his return to full fitness with a magnificent run at the national trials clocking 49.14 seconds. Bett clocked ...

The head of the United States successful bid for the 2021 World Athletics Championships has been placed on temporary leave after he was contacted by US federal authorities looking into corruption in the sport.Vin Lananna, who is president of the USA Track and ...

IMAGE: Isaac Makwala of Botswana ran solo to qualify for the men's 200m semi-finals in a rare sight at the World Athletics Championships in London, 2017 after he recovered from norovirus. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images A Gold Coast school that will serve as a key residential and training venue for next month's Commonwealth Games is to undergo sanitisation measures due to a highly contagious virus which causes nausea and vomiting. What is norovirus? Norovirus is known as the ...

Two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva and fellow Russian skater Alina Zagitova are close friends who talk to each other about everything, but when they take to the ice for Olympic medals on Friday, its going be nothing short of war. Zagitova, who led ...

The world braced up to a post-Bolt era but for India there was no momentous change as the country's athletes did nothing for the global audience to take note of. IMAGE: Usain Bolt, centre, pulls up with injury during the 4x100 metres relay final at the World Championships in London, on August 13, 2017. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters Internationally, athletics took tentative steps towards a post-Usain Bolt era but time continued to stand still for the dope-tainted sport in India as another ...